Senior Software Engineer, International
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
Role overview
The International team is seeking a talented and driven Senior Software Development Engineer to work on exciting product initiatives and enhancements for our Canadian and UK markets. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the full backend software development lifecycle, collaborating with engineering and product peers across teams to design innovative solutions and tackle complex challenges.
To succeed in this role, you must be able to learn and adapt quickly, and collaborate with other engineers to deliver solutions. Some examples of potential project opportunities: Building new microservices for consumer and dealer products, Integrating with existing services to expand functionality, Designing and implementing integrations with third-party APIs and partners, Modernizing and rearchitecting current systems to leverage cloud technologies like AWS. As a Senior Engineer, you will drive projects from conception to completion, working closely with engineers and product partners to deliver impactful solutions for the international business. No need to be a car expert—we’re more interested in your passion for engineering and your ability to innovate!
What you'll do
- Collaborate with engineers and product managers across the organization to understand and solve new product requirements and tackle technical challenges.
- Contribute to the technical direction and architectural vision.
- Work with Java, Spring boot, AWS and other backend technologies to build customer facing products.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, automated testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and alerting.
- Play a critical role in implementing a design and service oriented architecture for CarGurus International products.
- Lead and collaborate with engineers on projects from its conception to completion.
- Share your technical expertise during architectural design discussions and hands-on mentorship.
What you'll bring
- Extensive hands-on software design and development experience in OOP, Java and Spring experience (at least 5 years).
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Ability to Write clean, well-tested and efficient code that passes through code review with minimal comments and produces high-quality code review guidance for others.
- Comfortable writing unit tests, root causing issues & using observability tools to understand system health & performance.
- Self-led/motivated, capable of working with little direction and ability to resolve blockers.
- Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit to proactively communicate questions, blockers and continuous updates.
- Some hands-on experience with relational Database.
- Deep understanding of design patterns.
- Eager to learn and expand your capabilities through leading and owning projects.
- Some experience with service oriented architecture and distributed systems.
Role overview
The International team is seeking a talented and driven Senior Software Development Engineer to work on exciting product initiatives and enhancements for our Canadian and UK markets. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the full backend software development lifecycle, collaborating with engineering and product peers across teams to design innovative solutions and tackle complex challenges.
To succeed in this role, you must be able to learn and adapt quickly, and collaborate with other engineers to deliver solutions. Some examples of potential project opportunities: Building new microservices for consumer and dealer products, Integrating with existing services to expand functionality, Designing and implementing integrations with third-party APIs and partners, Modernizing and rearchitecting current systems to leverage cloud technologies like AWS. As a Senior Engineer, you will drive projects from conception to completion, working closely with engineers and product partners to deliver impactful solutions for the international business. No need to be a car expert—we’re more interested in your passion for engineering and your ability to innovate!
What you'll do
- Collaborate with engineers and product managers across the organization to understand and solve new product requirements and tackle technical challenges.
- Contribute to the technical direction and architectural vision.
- Work with Java, Spring boot, AWS and other backend technologies to build customer facing products.
- Be deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle designing, developing, testing, automated testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring and alerting.
- Play a critical role in implementing a design and service oriented architecture for CarGurus International products.
- Lead and collaborate with engineers on projects from its conception to completion.
- Share your technical expertise during architectural design discussions and hands-on mentorship.
What you'll bring
- Extensive hands-on software design and development experience in OOP, Java and Spring experience (at least 5 years).
- A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and complexity analysis.
- Ability to Write clean, well-tested and efficient code that passes through code review with minimal comments and produces high-quality code review guidance for others.
- Comfortable writing unit tests, root causing issues & using observability tools to understand system health & performance.
- Self-led/motivated, capable of working with little direction and ability to resolve blockers.
- Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit to proactively communicate questions, blockers and continuous updates.
- Some hands-on experience with relational Database.
- Deep understanding of design patterns.
- Eager to learn and expand your capabilities through leading and owning projects.
- Some experience with service oriented architecture and distributed systems.
